Potential of Faba Bean (Vicia faba L.) for Dual-purpose Vegetable Production and Cover Cropping

Cover cropping has been strongly promoted, but few growers have realized the benefits of this practice due to challenges linked economic returns and whole-system management. In western United States, winter legumes including faba bean potential add value while offering soil health compared with fallow fields. This experiment assessed five vegetable varieties for fresh pod yield, quality, biomass N return under a single multiple harvest scheme. Vegetable were further two popular cover crop varieties, ‘Bell bean’ ‘Sweet Lorane’ benefits. The revealed significant ( P ≤ 0.05) genotypic variation dry biomass, removal, return, C:N in three testing environments schemes. Finally, variety ‘Vroma’ produced high average yield (16,178 kg·ha −1 ) (38,928 schemes maintaining (119 N) harvests (97 (128 N). demonstrated that on an early yielding can generate also providing are comparable termination same date.